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Asian Festival of Children’s Content
22—25 May 2025

19, 20, 21, 23 May 2025 (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday)Ages 7–12

Characters are one of the most crucial elements of storytelling yet who are they? Where do they come from? And why do they matter? Children’s author, Dimity Powell will show you how to connect with characters and how to make readers care about them in this revealing workshop on getting real with those who are unreal!

Dimity Powell

Dimity Powell (Australia)

Award winning children's author, Dimity Powell loves filling every spare moment with words. She is the Managing Editor for Kids’ Book Review who writes and reviews exclusively for children with over 30 published stories and digital narratives including the award-winning, This is My Dad (2022), At the End of Holyrood Lane (2018) and the critically acclaimed, The Fix-It Man (2017). Several of her titles have been published in simplified Chinese, Polish, Spanish and Slovenian. She believes in the transformative power of storytelling, the restorative power of chocolate ice-cream and superheroes because she lives near one on the Gold Coast, Australia. 


Part of AFCC Author Visits.
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